CS169

Course Syllabus

Contact

Instructor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy

  • Office Location: 324, Engineering II

  • E-mail: krish@cs.ucr.edu

  • Web: www.cs.ucr.edu/~krish

  • Office Hours: Mon 3 - 4 PM on ZOOM (by request)

TA: Zhutian Liu (zliu272@ucr.edu)

  • Office Location: WCH 367

  • Office Hours: TBD (or by appointment)

Class Logistics

Lecture

Time: Tue, Thu 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM

Location: Student Success Center 216

Lab

Time: Tue 04:00 PM - 05:50 PM (Starting from week 2)

Location: Sproul Hall 2355

  • Lab attendance is mandatory for the first 6 sessions.

  • You will lose significant points for each lab missed.

  • Submit the material in Canvas/Gradescope according to lab instruction.

  • Refer to lab slides and instructions.

Quizzes

Roughly once in 3 weeks.

  • Quiz 1

  • Quiz 2

  • Quiz 3

  • Finals – on the day announced by the registrar.

Homework

Release in Canvas/Gradescope.

Course Objectives

  • Learn architectural differences between various wireless systems

  • Examine how wireless affects protocol design and development

  • Uncover network operation, deployment, and application issues

Course Topics Overview

  1. Intro and overview

  2. Networking primer (some basics to get you synced up with networks)

  3. Radio signals -- and why they are different (propagation of signals, effects).

  4. Medium access -- how to share the wireless spectrum across users.

  5. Cellular networks -- we will start with a very short discussion of 1st generation and see the progression to LTE. (no 5G at this time -- but I will discuss what are the differences)

  6. How cellular progressed from just voice calls to carrying data and Internet traffic.

  7. WiFi -- and data access indoors

  8. Impact of mobility on IP and TCP (protocols that are de facto in the Internet)

  9. Bluetooth

  10. Network planning for cellular (if time permits).

Grading

  • Homework 10%

  • Labs 10%

  • 3 Quizzes 15% each

    • Choose the best two.

  • Project 20%

  • Final 30%

Textbook and references

Textbook

  • Mobile Communications 2nd edition, Jochen Schiller, Addison Wesley

However, I may draw things from other sources. Refer to slides – should have the content you are responsible for.


Other references

  • Papers from journals and magazines

  • Principles of Wireless Networks – Kaveh Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy, Pearson